Ms Clare McGrath:

Nine projects were identified for consideration as pilot projects. Proposed pilot projects relating to Tullamore, the Wad river and Portarlington went in a different direction.

The Tullamore scheme and the scheme on the River Wad have been completed. Given that schemes such as those in Clonmel, Fermoy, Mallow and Ennis were completed in the same period, it is not the case that nothing was happening in the management-----